Is anyone going to the Videogame swap meet in Feb?

[Is anyone going to the Videogame swap meet in Feb?]

Seattle city events page

[NWCGE Holiday Meet]

Just read this thread. How did it go?

[Thinking of buying Sonic on the 360? Watch This!]

I didn't like it either, but my son got Sonic for the Leapster. That's actually a pretty good Sonic game.

[Some more post your setups]

Sadly, mine are all in boxes.

Where's your Stacy?

[Any games done better on the ST than the Amiga?]

I have not tried them, but I hear the earlier Sierra games and Origin Ultima 4 and 5 support MIDI on the ST. Considering that none of those games really push the ST or Amiga's graphic or sound hardware at all, it seems likely that with a good MIDI keyboard the ST versions would have better audio.

[STacy SCSI/IDE Compact Flash?]

So I've got one of the Acard SCSI/IDE adapters (an AEC-7720U) sitting here taunting me with its uninstalled status. I'm planning on trying to use the bridge inside my STacy with a Compact Flash-IDE adapter to give me a nice super cool solid state hard drive. Don't know exactly how successful it will be, but I'm thinking it should work.

 

Has anyone tried anything similar?

 

Sort of... A while back a guy sold me his inventory of prototype SCSI flash drives. I think he intended to produce a limited run for classic Mac enthusiasts but never did. Anyway, these things are ADTX SCSI to IDE bridges with a custom connector into an IDE-to-CF converter. In the converter is a 128 MB CF card.

 

I tried one of these on my Amiga 2000's SCSI controller and it worked great! I have a Stacy 2 and see no reason why it should not work with that system's SCSI controller. I just don't have an HDD software or practical ST HDD experience to test the theory.

 

Anyway, the AEC sounds like a similar device to the ADTX. It should work, but I suppose there are a lot of X-factors involved.

[Have you ever bought a system on launch day?]

My Grandmother got an Atari VCS on or near the date of its launch. She was looking for a game for my Grandfather while he was recovring for surgery (I think) and asked for an airplane board game or puzzle, and the store clerk showed her air-sea battle.

 

I seem to remember getting a Lynx on its first day, or at least week-end. And an Xbox and an Xbox 360 a few weeks before thier official launch dates in the US.